Stay Away - Research Associate CoStar Group Employee Review

As is the case for most research roles in any company, all research associates input information into our database in order to provide content to the product our customers subscribe to. But our researchers also speak with key players in the real estate industry, develop relationships with them and in many cases serve as an additional voice while brokers, investors and tenants make key decisions. As such, 80% of the learning comes from the experience, not the initial days of classroom training. Our training provides our employees with an introduction into commercial real estate, but it’s through market interactions that they gain the expertise that is highly praised by our clients. We have a very large Research department, and as a result would not be able to facilitate remote working. To counter this, we work hard to provide great in-office employee benefits, from commuter subsidies to salads, fresh fruit and coffee restocked on a daily basis. Our researchers, unless having agreed to an additional project that requires overtime for which they are appropriately compensated, work 40-hour weeks and don’t have to take any work home with them. In cases of inclement weather we do operate on a liberal leave policy, which is standard for many companies.